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The Next Election, Political News, and Other Forms of Comedy (US, UK, & Intl)
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I agree. That fly yesterday was awesome.
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I briefly miss Russell at times like this. But then I sober up.
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This turns me off the most, particularly with Bush Jr.
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You are all generalising everything way too much in this thread
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Quoted for the near future.
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Imagine this thread took place on SF, would be so many lulz.
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From what little info I could gather from a distance I see the biggest advantage for Hillary that she secured the nomination long before the primaries, so she could plan her campaign before the GOP had gathered their bunch of "candidates"!
Lets be honest, does anybody remember any of them? Other than Dr. Sleeping Pill?!
They lost to Trump, so that says a lot about their leader "qualities"!
They would not have had the slightest chance against Hillary!
TBH, I'm less concerned about trash talking, bragging guys than I am about this:
Lets be honest, does anybody remember any of them? Other than Dr. Sleeping Pill?!
They lost to Trump, so that says a lot about their leader "qualities"!
They would not have had the slightest chance against Hillary!
TBH, I'm less concerned about trash talking, bragging guys than I am about this:
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She is fucking devil.
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I doubt the devil would be interested. He can grab better *ussy!
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One thing that has really been enlightening this election is that I used to think I hated Hillary more than most and it turns out not even close, and secondly I hate her for completely different reasons.
That video is her at her most likeable. There is all sorts of bad shit about her, but that isn't one of them.
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Meanwhile in daily Trump lolazo.
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Hillary Clinton Touted Her Record of Spreading Fracking in Secret, Paid Speeches
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS on the paid speaking circuit, Hillary Clinton was far more candid than she has been in public about her prominent role as Secretary of State in exporting American-style hydraulic fracturing — the controversial, environmentally damaging technique best known as fracking — to countries all over the world.
“I’ve promoted fracking in other places around the world,” she declared during a 2013 paid talk to Deutsche Bank, adding that she launched a new wing of the State Department devoted to the initiative.
During a paid speech in Canada the following year, Clinton touted her role in “accelerating” natural gas development in Europe, calling attention to Poland’s embrace of fracking as a positive step.
The contrast with the rhetoric Clinton has used on the campaign trail is striking. Clinton has rarely spoken in public of her role selling fracking abroad, and at times positioned herself as a skeptic of the controversial drilling technique. In the lead-up to the New York Democratic primary, Clinton’s campaign released a television advertisement that gave the impression that she has worked to discourage fracking.
The remarks were quoted in an attachment to one of the hacked emails belonging to campaign chairman John Podesta that were posted by WikiLeaks on Friday. Two days after we asked Clinton in Manchester, N.H., in January to release her Goldman Sachs transcripts, Clinton campaign deputy research director Carter Hutchinson reviewed all her paid speech transcripts in an 80-page report highlighting potential political fallout. It was sent to Podesta and other top campaign aides by Tony Carrk, Clinton’s research director. Carrk did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton’s decision to use fracking as a diplomatic tool has been chronicled byMother Jones and The Intercept.
Earlier this year, we obtained emails from Clinton aides discussing plans to make Poland a “laboratory for testing whether U.S. success in developing shale gas can be repeated in a different country.” The emails also revealedefforts to partner with energy companies such as Chevron and Marathon Oil.
Starting early in her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton traveled the globe encouraging foreign countries to adopt fracking technology. Clinton has both publicly and privately explained that she views fracking, under the right circumstances, as the most environmentally sound method of transitioning away from other fossil fuels such as oil and coal. She has also said that fracking can make the U.S. and other nations energy independent, a foreign policy goal that may weaken gas exporting countries such as Russia.
But in private, Clinton also asserted that there is a conspiracy of Russian-funded groups attempting to suppress fracking development. During a speech to a group in Canada called tinePublic, Clinton claimed that there are “phony environmental groups” that are “funded by the Russians to stand against” fracking.
It wasn’t clear which groups Clinton was referring to during those remarks. The Clinton campaign has not responded to a request for comment.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS on the paid speaking circuit, Hillary Clinton was far more candid than she has been in public about her prominent role as Secretary of State in exporting American-style hydraulic fracturing — the controversial, environmentally damaging technique best known as fracking — to countries all over the world.
“I’ve promoted fracking in other places around the world,” she declared during a 2013 paid talk to Deutsche Bank, adding that she launched a new wing of the State Department devoted to the initiative.
During a paid speech in Canada the following year, Clinton touted her role in “accelerating” natural gas development in Europe, calling attention to Poland’s embrace of fracking as a positive step.
The contrast with the rhetoric Clinton has used on the campaign trail is striking. Clinton has rarely spoken in public of her role selling fracking abroad, and at times positioned herself as a skeptic of the controversial drilling technique. In the lead-up to the New York Democratic primary, Clinton’s campaign released a television advertisement that gave the impression that she has worked to discourage fracking.
The remarks were quoted in an attachment to one of the hacked emails belonging to campaign chairman John Podesta that were posted by WikiLeaks on Friday. Two days after we asked Clinton in Manchester, N.H., in January to release her Goldman Sachs transcripts, Clinton campaign deputy research director Carter Hutchinson reviewed all her paid speech transcripts in an 80-page report highlighting potential political fallout. It was sent to Podesta and other top campaign aides by Tony Carrk, Clinton’s research director. Carrk did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton’s decision to use fracking as a diplomatic tool has been chronicled byMother Jones and The Intercept.
Earlier this year, we obtained emails from Clinton aides discussing plans to make Poland a “laboratory for testing whether U.S. success in developing shale gas can be repeated in a different country.” The emails also revealedefforts to partner with energy companies such as Chevron and Marathon Oil.
Starting early in her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton traveled the globe encouraging foreign countries to adopt fracking technology. Clinton has both publicly and privately explained that she views fracking, under the right circumstances, as the most environmentally sound method of transitioning away from other fossil fuels such as oil and coal. She has also said that fracking can make the U.S. and other nations energy independent, a foreign policy goal that may weaken gas exporting countries such as Russia.
But in private, Clinton also asserted that there is a conspiracy of Russian-funded groups attempting to suppress fracking development. During a speech to a group in Canada called tinePublic, Clinton claimed that there are “phony environmental groups” that are “funded by the Russians to stand against” fracking.
It wasn’t clear which groups Clinton was referring to during those remarks. The Clinton campaign has not responded to a request for comment.
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Center for American Progress Advised Clinton Team Against $15 Minimum Wage, Leaked Emails Show
HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN emails released by Wikileaks on Monday show Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden advising against a $15 minimum wage, a key progressive goal during these past four years.
In late April 2015, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio sent an email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, campaign manager Robby Mook, and longtime Clinton aide and CAP chief Tanden offering them a preview of an email he would later send out describing the progressive agenda he planned to promote.
“Following up on my conversations with each of you last week, I want to keep you updated on the next steps in our efforts to organize progressives nationally to take on income inequality. Below is an email going out today for an event coming up in 2 weeks. I believe you will agree with much of this content. Please let me know if you want to discuss. Thanks – Bill,” he wrote.
“Should we care about this?” asked Podesta. The policy agenda DeBlasio laid out in the email included a $15 federal minimum wage.
Tanden shrugged it off.
“Substantively, we have not supported $15 — you will get a fair number of liberal economists who will say it will lose jobs,” she wrote back. “Most of rest seems fine (obviously trade sticks out). Politically, we are not getting any pressure to join this from our end. I leave it to you guys to judge what that means for you. But I’m not sweating it.”
Bear in mind this was only two weeks after thousands of workers in over 200 U.S. cities took part in demonstrations asking for $15 an hour.
The Center has been the object of increased criticism by observers who see it less as a center of progressive reform, and more as a Hillary Clinton White House in waiting.
Clinton senior aide Jake Sullivan, who Podesta included in his original reply, replied back that “John Podesta (and the Red Army) want to support $15!” — an indication that the campaign chair was leaning towards that policy request.
Tanden ended the email thread, writing back, “And when you say Red Army, you mean the base of the Democratic party, right?
Just want to be clear here.”
Throughout the Democratic primary, Clinton opposed a $15 minimum wage — campaigning instead on a federal minimum wage of $12 an hour. However, the $15 minimum wage made it into the Democratic Party’s presidential platform — with the support of Tanden, who was a Clinton appointee to the platform committee.
Less clear, however, is if Clinton will abide by that platform. For example, in a Clinton campaign “Wonks for Hillary” email sent in early September, the campaign stressed that Clinton supports a $12 federal minimum wage and $15 “where economically feasible”:
A spokesperson for the Center for American Progress directed all questions to the Clinton campaign. Podesta did not respond to a request for comment. (Full disclosure: the author of this post worked at the Center for American progress from 2009 to 2012.)
HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN emails released by Wikileaks on Monday show Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden advising against a $15 minimum wage, a key progressive goal during these past four years.
In late April 2015, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio sent an email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, campaign manager Robby Mook, and longtime Clinton aide and CAP chief Tanden offering them a preview of an email he would later send out describing the progressive agenda he planned to promote.
“Following up on my conversations with each of you last week, I want to keep you updated on the next steps in our efforts to organize progressives nationally to take on income inequality. Below is an email going out today for an event coming up in 2 weeks. I believe you will agree with much of this content. Please let me know if you want to discuss. Thanks – Bill,” he wrote.
“Should we care about this?” asked Podesta. The policy agenda DeBlasio laid out in the email included a $15 federal minimum wage.
Tanden shrugged it off.
“Substantively, we have not supported $15 — you will get a fair number of liberal economists who will say it will lose jobs,” she wrote back. “Most of rest seems fine (obviously trade sticks out). Politically, we are not getting any pressure to join this from our end. I leave it to you guys to judge what that means for you. But I’m not sweating it.”
Bear in mind this was only two weeks after thousands of workers in over 200 U.S. cities took part in demonstrations asking for $15 an hour.
The Center has been the object of increased criticism by observers who see it less as a center of progressive reform, and more as a Hillary Clinton White House in waiting.
Clinton senior aide Jake Sullivan, who Podesta included in his original reply, replied back that “John Podesta (and the Red Army) want to support $15!” — an indication that the campaign chair was leaning towards that policy request.
Tanden ended the email thread, writing back, “And when you say Red Army, you mean the base of the Democratic party, right?
Just want to be clear here.”Throughout the Democratic primary, Clinton opposed a $15 minimum wage — campaigning instead on a federal minimum wage of $12 an hour. However, the $15 minimum wage made it into the Democratic Party’s presidential platform — with the support of Tanden, who was a Clinton appointee to the platform committee.
Less clear, however, is if Clinton will abide by that platform. For example, in a Clinton campaign “Wonks for Hillary” email sent in early September, the campaign stressed that Clinton supports a $12 federal minimum wage and $15 “where economically feasible”:
A spokesperson for the Center for American Progress directed all questions to the Clinton campaign. Podesta did not respond to a request for comment. (Full disclosure: the author of this post worked at the Center for American progress from 2009 to 2012.)
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This is gold Jerry. Gold.
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Yup. Solid fact checking on very important claim. Thanks NBC!
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thanks for the sarcasm
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Mr Trump delivered a gaffe while addressing supporters in Florida on Tuesday, telling them to go out and vote on the wrong date.
ABC News footage showed him saying: "Go and register. Make sure you get out and vote, November 28."
The election is on 8 November.
--- might need those votes on the day if it's close matey.
ABC News footage showed him saying: "Go and register. Make sure you get out and vote, November 28."
The election is on 8 November.
--- might need those votes on the day if it's close matey.
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those dirty russians, hacking hillary's emails and interviews via wikileaks
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http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/ne...-political-weaknesses-in-latest-leaked-emails
“Do we have any sense from her what she believes or wants her core message to be?” asked Clinton adviser Joel Benenson.
“Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating [Donald] Trump,” Brent Budowsky, a political columnist and former political adviser, wrote in a March 2016 email to Podesta and Roy Spence, an ad maker for the campaign. “She has huge endemic political weaknesses that she would be wise to rectify."
“Even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me,” Budowsky added.
“Do we have any sense from her what she believes or wants her core message to be?” asked Clinton adviser Joel Benenson.
“Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating [Donald] Trump,” Brent Budowsky, a political columnist and former political adviser, wrote in a March 2016 email to Podesta and Roy Spence, an ad maker for the campaign. “She has huge endemic political weaknesses that she would be wise to rectify."
“Even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me,” Budowsky added.
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Lol, Larry Flynn is nauseated by Trump
http://m.torontosun.com/2016/10/12/hustler-publisher-larry-flynt-may-move-to-canada-if-trump-elected
http://m.torontosun.com/2016/10/12/hustler-publisher-larry-flynt-may-move-to-canada-if-trump-elected
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shit's blowing up tonight about trump being a serial groper. on the one hand, i find this all exceptionally plausible given what a raging cunt he is. on the other, i have to find it just a tad odd that they're all coming out on the same day.
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Which is why it's highly doubtful all of them are legitimate. There was over a year of primary contests for these things to surface. Surely Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio's campaign staff can't be that incompetent.
This reminds me of the swift boat veterans for the truth that came up in the Kerry general campaign.
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Probably true but the timing is curious. I suppose the media frenzy has given them courage to share their stories.
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children in Miami asked Hillary to do her "crazy face"
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Wait till next week when the N bomb tapes come out.
Giant meteor just needs to end it all already, I'm not sure I can take another 20 some days of this.
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you should look up the name Victoria Nuland. she's likely to be our next SoS under Hillary.
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Great, Hitlery with the Super Predators.
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this comment makes absolutely no sense. what the fuck happened to you Arny? you used to post regularly and could manage a somewhat coherent post when called upon. now you just drop in with this stupid garbage once a week? step up your game, son.
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I'm ready to start posting more, rambo-man.
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The Russians aren't dumb enough to attack us. The only reason they are running rampant right now is Obama has been a total puss on the world stage.
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we're going to attack the russians. hillary is going to start a proxy war through syria.
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The Brits might beat her to it. BJ is already talking about military action in Syria against Russia.